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the base is the only persistent part, and about equal in length to 
the beak, A. Fig. I. Pl. CLXXIII. 
The part of the spadix within the convolute persistent base 
is crowded with fruit, the beak with stamina of an acuminate 
form, truncate and arranged in groups as in Caladium. 
Fruit crowed together, berried, pink red punctulate, with a 
depressed apex, a discoid stigma in the centre, and sub- 
lobed angular sides, 3 celled, with indefinite seeds attached to 
the inner angle of the placenta. 
Seeds enveloped partly in congealed mucus belonging to the 
placent, oblong, areolate, foveolate and with small whitish 
“mammille at one end, this testa encloses a smooth coniform, 
fleshy body, with a similar mammilla, evidently the second 
integument or membrane, this is filled by fleshy albumen, 
from which it is scarcely separable, and by an axillary round 
clavate embryo, the thin end is next the mammilla. See Pl. 
CLXXIII. Fig. I. a chalaza, 5 inner membrane, c testa, 
d albumen, e embryo, f foramen, g hilum. 
There is an oblong foveola (2) which marks the eruption of 
plumula. 
The radicle points to the mammilla, the other end which 
looks even more like micropyle, is the chalaza. 
This, which is the same as Calla of Roxburgh, is either Ho- 
таіопета ог Aglaonema of Endl. and Schott. 
This is the second species in which the antheriferous part 
of the spadix is not on the same line, or plane, with the ovari- 
gerous, The spathe owing to the curve, have a curious ap- 
pearance, not unlike the beak of the bird Anastomus, the 
lower margin of the spath, being the most prominent. 
It may perhaps be a subgenus of one of the above. 
AGLAONEMA 
Aglaoneme sp. 
Pedunculus 1-2 pedalis erectus crassus. 
patha foliacea convoluta, lamina o. hians, fructus irre- 
